Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
>> All I can say is "don't hold your breath". I first picked up "this
>> particular torch" in around 1990. I suspect that others picked it up
>> before then. The compiler group had always responded, "not worth the
>> test matrix". It also seems that we were the major requestors - it
>> seems that our ISVs didn't trust cross-compiling (when it comes to final
>> builds, would we?).
>> Maybe something has changed, but I don't suspect anything has.
>>
>
> The problem with crosss compilations is that it does not really work if the
> software uses dynamic autoconfiguration for portability.
>
> You would first need to hand craft _all_ autoconfiguration results for the
> target platform.
>
Most of ON is not autoconfigured. The only exceptions I can think of
would likely be related to 3rd party software (perl?)
Certainly NetBSD has found solutions to this problem. :-)
I wouldn't mind putting some of the 3rd party software that depends on
such autoconfiguration out of ON. I tend to believe that we have a
bunch of stuff in ON, that probably should live in another
consolidation. (Again, perl comes to mind... though I'm sure others
have different, and perhaps equally, or more so, valid opinions.)
-- Garrett
